Disease Quotations | Page 7

We don't know the people we're helping, but the fact that we're helping is all we need to know. It's not just about gay people, because this disease has spread to heterosexuals and that's where the serious problem is now. Our passion is for helping people who have no other means. It doesn't matter that we've never met them and probably never will.

We don't know how the disease got into Nigeria.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

The default activity patterns of the brain may, over many years, augment a metabolic- or activity-dependent cascade that participates in Alzheimer's disease pathology. The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to the regions where plaques form in older people with Alzheimer's disease. This is quite a remarkable convergence that we did not expect.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Life is an incurable disease.

Western nations now realize that if they contain this in Southeast Asia, in fact they might minimize the jeopardy to their own citizens. They are now starting to put money into helping these countries develop surveillance systems, helping these countries to prepare to contain this disease within their own countries.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is tallow a remedy to be applied.

We want to ask people how services can more effectively promote good health, as well as treat disease, and how we can empower people to have more say in the care they receive in the community and their homes.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

The conventional wisdom is that people who have gum disease typically don't have a problem until they are 35 or 40 years old, ... We found it is much more prevalent than anyone believed at a much younger age than anyone thought.

The control of avian disease is the best way to control a pandemic.

We'll spend that one billion euros for mad cow disease, but that's all, because there's no more money left.

What it means to me is that people are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected, and in really real ways, there can be a kind of spread of disease between people.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident.

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.

The philosophy of chiropractic is founded upon the knowledge of the manner in which a vital functions are performed by innate in health and disease. When the controlling intelligence is able to transmit mental impulses to all parts of the body, free and unobstructed, we have normal action which is health.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

We shouldn't wait for a major outbreak of mad cow disease to take greater preventive action. There is no question that we should not be feeding the remains of any mammals to food animals, and by not closing this dangerous loophole, we are exposing the American public to unnecessary risk.

There are many other studies, both clinical and non-clinical, that demonstrate homeopathy's efficacy and safety in many disease areas, ... Homeopathy has thrived and survived for over 250 years because of its excellent record of successful use and safety, which will ensure its continued use.

There are many factors involved in disease progression, and the type of virus is one of them. Our work may help us tease out what about this particular virus causes disease progression, and that may help us figure out how to stop it, either by preventing the spread, or blocking the mechanism to keep it from being so pathogenic.

We believe that this research will lead us to develop a new ways of preventing and treating asthma and anaphylaxis, which can then be extended to treat inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis,

We, of course, want to raise awareness, but we also want to raise funds so we can help find a cure for this disease and improve people's quality of life.

While scientists have believed that aging is a disease in which cells stop dividing, this study suggests that aging is really a disease of quality control. In this case, the manufactured product is a new cell. As we get older, altered gene expression results in cells with diminished function.

While non-potable water is primarily not intended for human consumption, as anyone who has ever showered knows, small amounts of water often are inhaled as aerosol or swallowed during showering. Indeed, scientific investigations have shown that waterborne disease can be transmitted simply through inhaling aerosolized contaminated shower water.

With about 2.7 million episodes of rotavirus occurring each year among children under age five in the U.S., this ACIP decision highlights the importance of rotavirus disease prevention and adds this needed vaccine to the current pediatric immunization schedule. Merck is proud that its 15 years of research and development resulted in the availability of this vaccine. For the past several years we have been producing ROTATEQ and plan to meet the anticipated demand for the vaccine following this recommendation from the ACIP.

We know that our ability to effectively communicate, along with our skills in using computers and other information technologies, are very important in our efforts to improve people's health and well being. With these initial investments in four new Centers of Excellence, we hope to identify new tools, approaches, and strategies for managing health records, bringing together disease information from different places, understanding the questions and concerns of patients, and educating people about ways to improve their health. The more we learn about when and how to use health communication and electronic information systems, the better able we'll be to meet the needs of people in the community.

We were shocked by the results. This study shows that at least in mice, diet can have a more profound effect on heart disease than any drug that we could imagine.

We can't make a recommendation that you could take an aspirin a day to prevent both heart disease and colorectal cancer.

We concluded that it's highly unlikely that middle ear disease had any impact on children's later development, ... Children are pretty resilient, and it's not as though there's no hearing. They might be turning up the TV or parents might have to speak louder, but these children aren't deaf. When their hearing gets better, they make up for the temporary loss.

We do have disease detectives who are working to study some features of the outbreak so we can learn as the virus spreads from community to community.

When more and more of the disease accumulates in the brain they are able to compensate for a long time, but at some point they cannot cope with it anymore and they manifest the disease.

We will distribute it broadly in outdoor-related stores. Here in the Rocky Mountains, that could mean in convenience stores. Whirling disease affects anyone who's in the water-it threatens their recreation.

There have been something like 180 million birds that have died either directly from the disease or been culled because they were exposed to it. Yet it's taken us all this time -- more than two years, almost three years now -- to cross this barrier.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

We knew there was already a significant disease burden. We didn't expect and didn't find that it was possible to eradicate the H5N1 infection and we are living with the consequences of that.

We knew there was already a significant disease burden, ... We didn't expect and didn't find that it was possible to eradicate the H5N1 infection and we are living with the consequences of that.

We thought it was important to get ahead of the curve on something that's going to become of increasing concern to the capital markets as the disease spreads.

why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of African Americans, 17 per cent of U.S. Latinos and up to 50 per cent of Native Americans

Those 2,966 earmarks are a symptom of a disease that is preventing our troops from getting the tools they need.

We are seeing younger and younger patients with more aggressive cardiovascular disease, and we realized we needed to take a closer look at our young people to see when risk factors emerge and why,

With cases of the deadly disease detected in Iran and India, Afghanistan is practically surrendered. Today we can say that an outbreak of the disease among birds in Afghanistan is virtually unavoidable.

With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.

The program is great. It teaches the kids that heart disease can affect anyone and it also makes them feel good about helping others.

The problem is that people don't see these diseases and think they no longer exist. These viruses and diseases are still circulating around the world and are just a plane ride away, and they will return if we don't keep our vaccination rates up.

This seems to be the direction the city's taking. Watching it get wiped out like it's a bad disease is very disheartening. It's not just the club scene, it's also the arts scene that's being squeezed out by this rampant, merciless rent situation.

This will be the most powerful genetic study that has ever been undertaken for MS or for any other disease.

The participants in our study received the fitness benefits without losing any weight. Many people exercise to lose weight, and when that doesn't occur, they stop exercising. However, the truth is that you can improve cardiovascular fitness and reduce the risk of heart disease by exercising without losing weight.

The person who regularly recites mantra attains liberation from the fears of disease and death.

The president, the vice president and I apologize for the suffering these men and women have been through, suffering from the effects of cancer, chronic beryllium disease and other illnesses.

There are a lot of unknowns about these diseases, and CWD is probably the most enigmatic.

When you have this disease, you can't ever go to the doctor by yourself. You just can't do that kind of a thing alone. You have to take anyone: friends, family, even a random guy from the street.

There are a large number of advantages to the system. You get a lot of shrimp from a small space, you're able to offer a truly fresh product you can't generally get in a grocery store, and there are very little problems with disease because its a bio-secure facility. This is the future of shrimp farming.

There are a few genes that have been implicated in the development of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, but other than APOE, no genes have been found that increase risk for the more common, late-onset form of the disease.

There are actually very few predictors of Alzheimer's disease, ... This study makes us think about the spectrum of clinical signs of AD beyond changes in memory and behavior and motor skills. Changes in BMI are easy to measure in a doctor's office without an expensive scan.

When you look at the statistics for heart disease and diabetes in African-American women, it's detected very late. We're trying to reach out to a younger audience and educate them before they get to that stage.

When you look at national figures you get one picture, and you get another when you look at geographic variation. The places in the country where we have very high rates of deaths from heart disease are places that have historically experienced economic underdevelopment. ... There have been a lack of opportunities for people to experience healthy living compared to other areas.

With our new prostate cancer initiative, we are once again taking a forward-looking approach to our underwriting because we expect that the significant progress made against this disease will continue. We hope to make a difference in people's lives with our expertise and our actions. Early screening and detection are critical for beating prostate cancer. We hope every man in America who is age 50 and older will undergo regular screenings and remain vigilant against this disease.

We have methods in this country to control rabies as far as a human disease is concerned, and we do not need this vaccine and it does not work.

We must be prepared for a worsening drought. Children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease and the burden on already over-stretched health, nutrition and water services will be even greater.

When we left, the problem was really just beginning. People were just starting to realize how quickly the disease spreads.

When we visit with Congressional offices, we are told again and again about the historic doubling of biomedical research funding that has occurred in the last decade. But for the as many as 7.5 million Americans with psoriasis, this doubling of funding at NIH is a cruel joke, because psoriasis research has actually been decimated during this time. People with psoriasis, and their loved ones, must step up and make their voices heard to get this reversed, or this incurable and often debilitating disease will continue to devastate lives for generations to come.